tacheter

French

Etymology

From tache.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taʃ.te/

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Verb

tacheter

1. to spot
2. (art) to dapple

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il tachète and the third-person singular future indicative il tachètera.

Conjugation of tacheter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tacheter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tachetant /taʃ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tacheté /taʃ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tachète /ta.ʃɛt/	tachètes /ta.ʃɛt/	tachète /ta.ʃɛt/	tachetons /taʃ.tɔ̃/	tachetez /taʃ.te/	tachètent /ta.ʃɛt/
	imperfect	tachetais /taʃ.tɛ/	tachetais /taʃ.tɛ/	tachetait /taʃ.tɛ/	tachetions /ta.ʃə.tjɔ̃/	tachetiez /ta.ʃə.tje/	tachetaient /taʃ.tɛ/
	past historic2	tachetai /taʃ.te/	tachetas /taʃ.ta/	tacheta /taʃ.ta/	tachetâmes /taʃ.tam/	tachetâtes /taʃ.tat/	tachetèrent /taʃ.tɛʁ/
	future	tachèterai /ta.ʃɛ.tʁe/ or /ta.ʃe.tʁe/	tachèteras /ta.ʃɛ.tʁa/ or /ta.ʃe.tʁa/	tachètera /ta.ʃɛ.tʁa/ or /ta.ʃe.tʁa/	tachèterons /ta.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ta.ʃe.tʁɔ̃/	tachèterez /ta.ʃɛ.tʁe/ or /ta.ʃe.tʁe/	tachèteront /ta.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ta.ʃe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tachèterais /ta.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ta.ʃe.tʁɛ/	tachèterais /ta.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ta.ʃe.tʁɛ/	tachèterait /ta.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ta.ʃe.tʁɛ/	tachèterions /ta.ʃɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ta.ʃe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	tachèteriez /ta.ʃɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ta.ʃe.tə.ʁje/	tachèteraient /ta.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ta.ʃe.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	tachète /ta.ʃɛt/	tachètes /ta.ʃɛt/	tachète /ta.ʃɛt/	tachetions /ta.ʃə.tjɔ̃/	tachetiez /ta.ʃə.tje/	tachètent /ta.ʃɛt/
	imperfect2	tachetasse /taʃ.tas/	tachetasses /taʃ.tas/	tachetât /taʃ.ta/	tachetassions /taʃ.ta.sjɔ̃/	tachetassiez /taʃ.ta.sje/	tachetassent /taʃ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tachète /ta.ʃɛt/	—	tachetons /taʃ.tɔ̃/	tachetez /taʃ.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “tacheter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cathéter